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Kill Fee

#3 in series

by Owen Laukkanen
Edoardo Ballerini
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The new Stevens and Windermere novel from one of the most dazzlingly acclaimed new writers in crime fiction. The billionaire picked a heck of a way to die. On a beautiful Saturday in downtown Saint Paul, Minnesota, state investigator Kirk Stevens and his occasional colleague FBI special agent Carla Windermere witness the assassination of one of the state's wealthiest men. The shooter is a young man, utterly unremarkable—except in his eyes. There is something very wrong in his eyes. And it's only the beginning. The events of that sunny springtime day will lead Stevens and Windermere across the country, down countless blind alleys, and finally to a very flourishing twenty-first-century enterprise: a high-tech murder-for-hire social media website. But just who has the dead-eyed shooter targeted next...and who's choosing his victims? That's where things get complicated.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Stevens and Windermere

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    March 3, 2016

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781470397753
      • File size: 326456 KB
      • Duration: 11:20:06

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      November 25, 2013
      A blistering pace and a stomach-turning homicide-for-hire scheme rockets Laukkanen’s third thriller featuring the detective odd couple of Carla Windermere and Kirk Stevens (after 2012’s Criminal Enterprise) from Minneapolis to grungy venues all over the United States. Since Windermere, a gorgeous African-American FBI agent, and Stevens, a middle-aged and married investigator with the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, first worked together, they’ve stayed close—though not as close as both suspect they easily could be. While meeting for lunch, the pair witness the sniper killing of billionaire Spenser Pyatt and glimpse a boyish killer fleeing the scene. Windermere and Stevens begin tracking the organization responsible, Killswitch, an Internet contract killing business run by Department of Defense contractor Michael Parkerson, who’s brainwashing damaged vets into drone-like “assets.” Despite some unbelievable plot elements, including a villain’s quasi-redemption through his do-gooding girlfriend, Laukkanen keeps readers engaged with a serpentine plot that writhes through high-tech and low-life corruption. Agent: Stacia Decker, Donald Maass Literary Agency.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Someone is selling murder on the Internet, and FBI Special Agent Carla Windermere and Minnesota State Investigator Kirk Stevens must stop him. Narrator Edoardo Ballerini rises to the challenge of portraying a varied cast of characters, starting with Windermere, Stevens, and a series of mentally unstable killers. Additional characters include Stevens's wife, a killer's girlfriend, and sundry cops and FBI agents. Whether Southern or Midwestern, white or African-American, male or female, Ballerini nails each character and captures the urgency of the manhunt. When he portrays the terrifying visions of assassin Malcolm Lind, Ballerini's voice becomes smoother to reflect the nightmare world of the killer's mind. This book is bolstered by Ballerini's outstanding performance. G.S.D. © AudioFile 2014, Portland, Maine

Formats

  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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Languages

  • English

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